Dr. Patricia Longmuir is a Senior Scientist in the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute. Dr. Longmuir’s research interests are the promotion of physical activity to children with medical conditions and disabilities, and the use of physical activity to prevent and/or treat morbidity. Her focus is the impact of interventions to increase physical activity. Dr. Longmuir investigates the impact of providing physical activity and exercise within clinical care and avenues to build physical activity motivation and confidence among children with medical conditions and disabilities. Dr. Longmuir has published more than 90 papers and 6 book chapters in the peer-reviewed literature. She has delivered over 200 scholarly conference presentations, and more than 80 invited and keynote addresses.
In this week's core session of Grand Rounds, Dr. Longmuir shares how physical activity is important for children’s health and quality of life; however, children with a high risk of severe bleeding may hesitate to engage. Current guidelines are sport-focused, often contradictory and do not address many common childhood physical activity settings. This research is acquiring objective evidence of impact risk to provide guidance to families.
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